Havana: Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Havana remains virulently hostile to the US, which reciprocates by maintaining a crippling economic embargo against the communist-ruled island.
Despite the passage of time, official speeches from the Castro regime and state-controlled media still refer to the superpower 145 kilometers across the Florida Strait as “the enemy” or “the Northern empire.”
The “blockade,” as Cubans describe the US economic and financial embargo imposed by Washington since February 1962 before the Missile Crisis, remains the main obstacle to any normalization.
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